Tonight's FNB* is Gisele Bundchen!
(*a.k.a. Rule Five Friday)
Gisele is in the news lately, because, in spite of all the environmental claptrap on her homepage, Gisele and Tom are building a 20,000 square foot house in southern California. Spend your money however you like, Gisele! You earned it! Just spare the rest of us the pain of listening to you preach about saving the environment. Apparently, you want to save it by getting as much of it under one roof as you can! Heh.

Free people can treat each other justly, but they can't make life fair. To get rid of the unfairness among individuals, you have to exercise power over them. The more fairness you want, the more power you need. Thus, all dreams of fairness become dreams of tyranny in the end.

Remember when President O said about a case where he admitted that he did not have all the facts, that the Cambridge Police Department "acted stupidly"?Listen to the above clip that Hannity presents and tell me if the President isn't either lying or hasn't a clue what's in the Arizona bill.

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Specialist Four Alfred Rascon, distinguished himself by a series of extraordinarily courageous acts on 16 March 1966, while assigned as a medic to the Reconnaissance Platoon, Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion (Airborne), 503rd Infantry, 173d Airborne Brigade (Separate). While moving to reinforce its sister battalion under intense enemy attack, the Reconnaissance Platoon came under heavy fire from a numerically superior enemy force. The intense enemy fire from crew-served weapons and grenades severely wounded several point squad soldiers. Specialist Rascon, ignoring directions to stay behind shelter until covering fire could be provided, made his way forward. He repeatedly tried to reach the severely wounded point machine-gunner laying on an open enemy trail, but was driven back each time by the withering fire. Disregarding his personal safety, he jumped to his feet, ignoring flying bullets and exploding grenades to reach his comrade. To protect him from further wounds, he intentionally placed his body between the soldier and enemy machine guns, sustaining numerous shrapnel injuries and a serious wound to the hip. Disregarding his serious wounds he dragged the larger soldier from the fire-raked trail. Hearing the second machine-gunner yell that he was running out of ammunition, Specialist Rascon, under heavy enemy fire crawled back to the wounded machine-gunner stripping him of his bandoleers of ammunition, giving them to the machine-gunner who continued his suppressive fire. Specialist Rascon fearing the abandoned machine gun, its ammunition and spare barrel could fall into enemy hands made his way to retrieve them. On the way, he was wounded in the face and torso by grenade fragments, but disregarded these wounds to recover the abandoned machine gun, ammunition and spare barrel items, enabling another soldier to provide added suppressive fire to the pinned-down squad. In searching for the wounded, he saw the point grenadier being wounded by small arms fire and grenades being thrown at him. Disregarding his own life and his numerous wounds, Specialist Rascon reached and covered him with his body absorbing the blasts from the exploding grenades, and saving the soldier's life, but sustaining additional wounds to his body. While making his way to the wounded point squad leader, grenades were hurled at the sergeant. Again, in complete disregard for his own life, he reached and covered the sergeant with his body, absorbing the full force of the grenade explosions. Once more Specialist Rascon was critically wounded by shrapnel, but disregarded his own wounds to continue to search and aid the wounded. Severely wounded, he remained on the battlefield, inspiring his fellow soldiers to continue the battle. After the enemy broke contact, he disregarded aid for himself, instead treating the wounded and directing their evacuation. Only after being placed on the evacuation helicopter did he allow aid to be given to him. Specialist Rascon's extraordinary valor in the face of deadly enemy fire, his heroism in rescuing the wounded, and his gallantry by repeatedly risking his own life for his fellow soldiers are in keeping with the highest traditions of military service and reflect great credit upon himself, his unit, and the United States Army.

Specialist Rascon: We humbly salute you and thank you for your service.

There are fewer than a hundred living MoH recipients today. Their names and their stories should not be forgotten. My mission is to honor one of those heroes here each week, and salute them for their courage and sacrifice.

"And it is hard to recall a White House more addicted to ad hominem attacks — against Palin, Fox News, pollsters, Tea Party protesters. This stems from both arrogance — their opponents are unworthy of substantive debate — and a certain intellectual laziness."

To lend the point more gravitas, President Clinton packed his reading glasses and affected his scholarly look, with the spectacles pushed down toward the end of his nose, as if he’s trying to determine whether that’s his 10 a.m. intern shuffling toward him across the broadloom or a rabid armadillo Al Gore brought along for the Earth Day photo op.

I'm tired of f***ing Earth Day! I'm tired of these self-righteous environmentalists; these white, bourgeois liberals who think the only thing wrong with this country is there aren't enough bicycle paths.

-George Carlin

Wasn't there a (white*) Democrat running for president who split his church over the issue of bicycle paths?

*Not Obama. He didn't split with his church until he'd absorbed twenty years of what they had to offer! I don't think "bicycle paths" came up!

Not Teresa, specifically, but her company, Heinz, has been fibbing about the ownership of a company they acquired two years ago, Golden Circle. They have been selling their products labeled as "proudly Australian owned". Tsk. Tsk.And now, it's going to cost them...

According to the Herald Sun, they've been forced to get rid of over two million pounds of pineapple!

MORE than 800,000 cans of pineapple weighing 1.1 million kilos, filling 50 semitrailers and valued at $3 million are bound for Australia's homeless community thanks to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.

Now there's a watchdog agency with some teeth!

The winners are the poor and destitute, who will now be enjoying the versatile fruit after it was handed over to charity Foodbank Australia last week.

"They said, 'Have we got something for you'!" Foodbank chief executive John Webster said with a laugh.

Obama can be thought to be less than presidential, or he can open his mouth and remove all doubt!

Then again, in terms of candidates for a perp walk, there were pretty slim pickings: Many of Wall Street’s leading luminaries stayed away, perhaps out of pique at the notion that mere elected officials would have the gall to tell Masters of the Universe how to run their affairs. Unless your business model depends on bilking people, there’s little to fear from these new rules. Yet there is so much fear abroad in the land, or at least up and down Wall Street, that the big financial institutions are shelling out millions to try to torpedo the reforms.

"Perp walk"? "Masters of the Universe"?? "Unless your business model depends on bilking people..."??? Who's writing your material these days, Mr. President? Keith D'Oh-lbermann??? This might make good "boob bait for the bubbas" among your party faithful, but seriously?? Is there no one in your own administration that might be a "candidate for a perp walk"? Does the name TurboTax Timmy Geithner, your current Treasury secretary ring a bell? Did you invite Tom Daschle, who failed to pay more than 100 grand in back taxes to Washington to a "perp walk" or to be part of your administration?

Mr. President, you walk softly and carry a big "shtick"!

Your sneering characterization of bankers as "Masters of the Universe" only seems to bother you to the extent that they are encroaching on your turf! These men are responsible for accruing and managing capital which is beyond the control of the capitol! That is to say, money that can be lent to businesses for expansion and creation of jobs, growth instruments that might provide for someone's secure retirement funds, and money to lend consumers for education, (scratch that! The government already consumed that part of the economy!), for home improvement (without a government contractor providing the services), for a new car, perhaps even one not built by Government Motors?

And did you notice the false dichotomy? Either you are a con man, bilking your customers or you have "nothing to fear" from Obama's new rules. When exactly did you stop beating your wife, Mr. Obama?Perhaps, the bankers do not wish to "torpedo reform" as much as to torpedo your "reforms"? Maybe the bankers could object, not on the grounds that they currently do or ever had intentions of "bilking people", but on the grounds that these men are professionals who are managing multimillion enterprises, whereas you, Mr. President, have never managed as much as a lemonade stand, and yet you proceed to lecture captains of industry as if you had!

They don't object to your "gall" Mr. President, although you have plenty of that. No, I think they object to your incompetence and your willingness to have the government take over large portions of our economy with the same hope of efficiency and success that we've seen with the Post Office, Medicare, the VA, Social Security and the D.M.V.

I think that Obama's "pique" is directed at any "capital beyond the control of the Capitol". He's not greedy. He just thinks government should have it all!

Futility has not of course deterred the United States from creating and operating a vast Transportation Security Administration apparatus critically dependent on metal detectors. At enormous cost, and by inflicting enormous inconvenience, it almost guarantees the detection of any explosive device—so long as it is firmly attached to a nail clipper.

Dancing With The Stars and Fox??? If I were to ever watch Dancing With The Stars, it would be to watch the women in their skimpy outfits! And Fox?? Have they ever seen any of their own programming? Sheesh!

I love this country. And because I do, I insist that the temporary inhabitants of high political office comply with the Constitution, honor our God-given unalienable rights, and respect our hard-earned private property. For this I am called seditious, among other things, by some of the very people who've condemned this society?

One thing I have been noticing of late, is the type of "change" that liberals seem to be fondest of when debating the shortcomings of their ideology: Change the subject!

I wrote a piece recently about the hypocrisy of the pseudo-"Green" (blue) environmental screed Avatar being released on "Earth Day", that shipping tons of plastic coast to coast and encouraging people to curl up in front of the big screen plasma TV and consume electricity prodigiously was not very "green".

Movies are released on DVD all the time, no problem there. Just hyping it as some sort of "green" statement, when the only green Cameron really cares about is in the cash registers, was hypocritical.

A number of liberal commenters took me to task, about whether I liked the movie, whether I had seen it in 3D or whether my objections were purely partisan, all irrelevant to the point. They discussed everything BUT whether or not the message of releasing a zillion DVDs on Earth Day was "green".

Thread hijacking is another common lib technique. If they do not want a discussion to succeed, they say something outrageous and divert the discussion to something else. Generally racism. Sometimes homosexuality. Anything but the topics that expose them for who they truly are.

That's one of the reasons they want to brand the Tea Partys as "racist". All the tea parties I've attended, no one gave a flying fling at a rolling dough nut what color any of the politicians were, they cared about whether or not they were adhering to the Constitution.

If the liberals can divert the Tea Partys from defending the Constitution to defending themselves against false and malicious charges of "racism", then the liberals don't have to defend their un-Constitutional actions, laws or speech.

Don't let yourself be distracted or derailed. If a liberal wants to change the subject. Change it back!

Update: There are a number of other ways liberals lie to change the subject. One is the straw man. Recently in a McPaper I picked up on the road, there was a letter to the editor saying that if Tea Partiers didn't want to pay taxes, that they shouldn't receive any services.

"We would soon see how long the Tea Party would survive in its own tax-free world"

Only no one in the "Tea Party" that I've ever hear is advocating paying no taxes at all. The objections I hear are for ever increasing taxes to fund extra-Constitutional things while not dealing with inefficiency, waste and corruption. So by distorting the message of "Taxes are too high" into "We don't want to pay any taxes at all, is a reductio ad absurdum, a reduction to the absurd, they create the "straw man" so weak that even a liberal could knock it down!

Hi, kids! Today we're going to play the Tea Party Racism game. I'll give you a racist statement about our first African American President, Barack Obama, and you match it to the tea partier who said it. Ready? Here goes: (Hint: They're all white!)

A) "I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man."

B) Obama is a "light-skinned" African-American "with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one."

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Lance Baxter, a.k.a. "D.C. Douglas", has been fired. Rather than own up to his own stupidity, Lance has this to say:

“I called as a private citizen to make a complaint. Racism and homophobia are my Achilles heel, but unfortunately my message included inappropriate words and I am sorry for that. However, telling their members to harass my employer to get me fired is an egregiously disproportionate response to my actions.”

Gee, Lance! And when private citizens who are or might be Geico customers act as private citizens to tell your employer what an offensive moron you are, that is their right. I don't believe anyone had to be told to complain about what you said. If you weren't such a bigoted bonehead, you might have recognized that. Unfortunately (for you) the egregious outrageousness of your comments (like chickens, the Rev. Wright might say) have come home to roost!

Contrary to initial reports, Lance is not the "Gecko". Our apologies to lizards and other liberals everywhere!

Don't say stupid, hateful things. So simple, even a caveman could do it!

For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty. While Company 1 was conducting an operation along the axis of a narrow jungle trail, the leading company elements suffered numerous casualties when they suddenly came under heavy fire from a well concealed and numerically superior enemy force. Hearing the engaged marines' calls for more firepower, Sgt. Pittman quickly exchanged his rifle for a machinegun and several belts of ammunition, left the relative safety of his platoon, and unhesitatingly rushed forward to aid his comrades. Taken under intense enemy small-arms fire at point blank range during his advance, he returned the fire, silencing the enemy position. As Sgt. Pittman continued to forge forward to aid members of the leading platoon, he again came under heavy fire from 2 automatic weapons which he promptly destroyed. Learning that there were additional wounded marines 50 yards further along the trail, he braved a withering hail of enemy mortar and small-arms fire to continue onward. As he reached the position where the leading marines had fallen, he was suddenly confronted with a bold frontal attack by 30 to 40 enemy. Totally disregarding his safety, he calmly established a position in the middle of the trail and raked the advancing enemy with devastating machinegun fire. His weapon rendered ineffective, he picked up an enemy submachinegun and, together with a pistol seized from a fallen comrade, continued his lethal fire until the enemy force had withdrawn. Having exhausted his ammunition except for a grenade which he hurled at the enemy, he then rejoined his platoon. Sgt. Pittman's daring initiative, bold fighting spirit and selfless devotion to duty inflicted many enemy casualties, disrupted the enemy attack and saved the lives of many of his wounded comrades. His personal valor at grave risk to himself reflects the highest credit upon himself, the Marine Corps, and the U.S. Naval Service.

There are fewer than a hundred living MoH recipients today. Their names and their stories should not be forgotten. My mission is to honor one of those heroes here each week, and salute them for their courage and sacrifice.

Goldman Sachs, the whipping boy du jour of the Obama administration, gave a lot of money to apparently ungrateful Democrats.USA Today, lists the top ten recipients of G-S's largesse in the 2009-10 campaign cycle. Seven of the top ten were Democrats or Democrat organizations.

Let’s talk about the Supreme Court for a quick sec. President Obama has another pick coming up. If I were able to question him, I might ask something like, “When you were in the Senate, you voted against both John Roberts and Samuel Alito. You said they were qualified in traditional ways, but they were conservative — therefore, in your eyes, they were unfit to serve on the Supreme Court. By your standard, should Republican senators vote against your nominees because they’re liberal?”

I’d also like to ask, “Would you please explain where Sonia Sotomayor is qualified to serve on the Supreme Court but Roberts and Alito are not?”

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Colorado, that is! Been "on the road again" since four yesterday morning, which may account for the paucity of posting lately. I'm here in Grand Junction where the gas is cheap and the speed limits are high! My kind of town! After all the activity of late, it does feel strange to travel somewhere and not have a tea party rally to attend, though!

Apart from being morally bizarre, the Obama policy is strategically loopy. Does anyone believe that North Korea or Iran will be more persuaded to abjure nuclear weapons because they could then carry out a biological or chemical attack on the U.S. without fear of nuclear retaliation?

Monday, April 19, 2010

A list of primaries you can get involved in right away. The Left has demonstrated just how easy it is for them to screw the country up. Scott Brown was the first shot fired in anger. Look for a skirmish near you real soon!

It's [the Tea Party] not the caricature as the press had it — as the disaffected, the poor, the losers — unsuccessful, racist, ignorant, uneducated whites. Which is exactly what you heard all of last year — when it wasn't ignored. It turns out they're middle class, slightly above the mean in education and in income.

But they represent a philosophy. And it’s libertarian. And it’s interesting. It’s got three ideas. It's against high taxes, it’s against the intrusiveness of government, and in an even larger sense it's kind of a constitutionalist idea.

There really is this notion of liberty, and that somehow the expansion of government — particularly since the liberals have taken over in the House, the Senate and the White House — has pushed taxes higher [and expanded] the reach, the power and the extent of government. And it's a kind of betrayal of the American social contract.

Sunday, April 18, 2010

Although I dislike the mandatory aspect of seat belts, I have worn them personally, religiously long before the nanny state told me I had to. Still, I have to admit that this is a good and heart warming ad for their usage.

For all of you that are "irony impaired", think about how many people are going to buy a plastic disc Tuesday, that is hardly biodegradable, and turn on their big screen TV's and DVD players and sit and suck electricity out of the grid for hours to watch a movie about how superior the simple, primitive life is.

Think about it. Kinda gives new meaning to word "Avatard", doesn't it? In fact, if you say it right, "Avatard DVD" rolls trippingly off the tongue!

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